Eric Foner Quotes
America at the turn of this century is a far freer, more egalitarian society than in 1900.
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In South Africa, being Chinese meant I wasn't white and I wasn't black. I trained in Baragwanath Hospital, the largest black hospital in South Africa. That was around 1976, the time of the Soweto Uprising, when police fired on children and students who were protesting. I was part of the group of interns who volunteered to treat them.
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If you're lucky, I think you know what you want to do with your life. I think that's a greater gift that any of the gifts you might have when you do know, if you know what I mean. It must be awful to not know what to do.
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Continuous persecution of widows and orphans is a crime. Even the Bible says there is a specific place in hell for those who oppress widows.
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Designers have told me that their collections are so me, but I don't always recognise it because if you ask me what my style is, I'm really not that sure.
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I pretty much try to stay in a constant state of confusion just because of the expression it leaves on my face.
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If you're a designer, there's got to be some films that you've seen that have inspired you creatively. There's no escaping that.
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You can't work in a steel mill and think small. Giant converters hundreds of feet high. Every night, the sky looked enormous. It was a torrent of flames - of fire. The place that Pittsburgh used to be had such scale.
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The delights of self-discovery are always available.
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I can never sit still. I wanna hurl myself into life.
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The principal did not like the fact that the teachers would take my side. I always left an impression when I left the school - not for who I was but for what I did there.
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The dilemma for early 21st century journalism is this: Who will pay for the news?
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One of the reasons I've never done intensive psychotherapy or any of that stuff is that if there's anything in me that needs fixing, I want to know that I can rely on my own intuition to fix it.
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I don't think college wrestling is in danger of extinction by any means. But I am concerned if one program drops.
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As a designer, I'm not a guy that can be put in a niche.
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When you take other people's opinions, you end up flailing and you have no center.
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Looking back now toward the startYou said you thought I'd lost my pathAnd I asked if you still considered love an artAnd you said "No, I think it's more a craft"And I just turned and laughedI just had to turn and laugh.
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Family life itself, that safest, most traditional, most approved of female choices, is not a sanctuary: It is, perpetually, a dangerous place.
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The initial plan for Rooster Teeth is really different from the initial plan for the group, because we started as a group that was making one show: 'Red vs. Blue.'
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Congress as a whole is less popular than it's been since polling was invented.
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I still put my pants on the same way. I still walk on my pool twice a day.
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The people who despise America are the editors of the 'New Statesman.' Their green-card applications must have been turned down.
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The eyes of that species of extinct giant, whose bones fill the mounds of America, have gazed on Niagara as our eyes do now.
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Universities used to prepare young adults for the real world. I dare say the graduates today go in without a clue and graduate without a clue. It's time to acknowledge the college degree is not worth what it was in the past. Times are changing, and so is the way we prepare our youth to survive in a competitive world.
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America at the turn of this century is a far freer, more egalitarian society than in 1900.
